Travel Blogs from St. Louis, Senegal

... Dakar to get spares.
The campsite is really nice, in the middle of a national bird park with pelicans, storks, kingfishers, etc. StLouis is 20 kms away and has some interesting buildings but not much else. The village next to the campsite is another ...

... time is flying by!
On Monday to Wednesday mornings I am helping out with 4 and 5yr olds at a centre in a run down area of stlouis. I have to say that it isnt that great so far because the teachers are really bad and just waste time. Due to my lack ...

... to share..pretty used to that now too! Have tried some very weird food so far..not loving dried fish which is really popular in St. Louis.
After lunch its 3 hours of french lessons at a school round the corner. Dinner is usually not until 9pm ish and so ...

First few days here and everything is good...overwhelming at first but now I am settling in. my host family are lovely and luckily the dad speaks english!!!! starting my french lessons today so hopefully things will get easier in that respect:. Did my ...

hey everyone! its been a zhile since ,y last decent internet connection and i dont have much time now so just a quick update...didnt end up going to Dakar as a couple of people in the group got ill! so just did the beach and scooter ride instead! so Much ...

Spent the morning of oct 1st at the Douane sorting paper work. Helped again by the good people we are staying with, in a way I feel like we're cheating a bit having all this help but without it it's incredible daunting. After the asmin morning we joined ...

Spent the morning of oct 1st at the Douane sorting paper work. Helped again by the good people we are staying with, in a way I feel like we're cheating a bit having all this help but without it it's incredible daunting. After the asmin morning we joined ...

... to come around quicker and quicker!) so we wondered over to the local market to pick up supplies (we decided on Lasagne). StLouis is famous for being West Africa's first French settlement and point from which the obvious large influence has grown to ...

... didnt really even open until now...that sucks...u put all your money into your dream, and then you loose everythink in months...senegal is wrong...the difference between western and local (coffe is 50 cfe, one night sleep easy 10000 cfe) is just to big. ...

... herded towards a taxi bus, where this very tall guy told me we were going to leave straight away. I thought great, I should make StLouis before dark. The very tall guy then walked about 5 meters to where a group of his friends where hanging and started ...

4 December StLouisSenegal We were up early for our run to the border, everything packed away and we were on the road for 6 am As you can imagine everyone promptly went to sleep, we couldn't have any lights on in the truck, so couldn’t read or ...

... is going to the bars tonight though, they have been warned to stay in groups for safety I don’t know what I really expected from StLouis anyway, but I think it is going to look like a lot of African cities and towns, I never saw any arts or crafts ...

... green sprinkles someone found at their regional house. New Years was also fun but very crowded as the majority of PC Senegal descended on StLouis. Luckily most of them stayed in hotels though we still ended up with about 15 ppl in the apartment ...

... the cutlery. Oh well.
Then the big day- Install! We spent the night in a youth hostel in StLouis before being installed because there's no regional house up North. What I thought might be a depressing way to be ...

... counterpart just before leaving for Dakar. It was essentially a gathering of all the leaders of the rural communities south of StLouis with representatives of all the NGO's that have projects in the area. Most of these are Senegalese NGO's ...

... ;) So in order to see more of the country we decided sundays will be our holidays ;) Yesterday we checked out the beaches of St. Louis. At Hydrobase. That means we were at the atlantic ocean. It was amazing. The waves were unbelievable. At times it looked ...

... relaxed. Unfortunately there was no live jazz last night- but a good night out none the less! St-Louis has definitely been the highlight of Senegal and not I'm particularly looking forward to the complete chaos of Dakar, especially after très tranquille ...

... catch the bus from my village which is essentially one guy who owns a big van and drives back and forth from the village to StLouis about 4 times a day with no real set schedule. I get off at the gare routiere, the transportation hub where all ...

... , I do think I'll be doing some individual consulting with the park and hopefully some smaller Senegalese owned auberges in StLouis. Throughout IST we also heard from current volunteers and several guest speakers. One was and importer who supplies ...

... 'nter – a senior student and gentleman in person ;) ) spent 4 days in Dakar, the capital. Two days ago we arrived in St. Louis the city we are gonna study in. Right now im sitting in a room with 7 other students trying to follow a discussion in ...

... Richard Toll, known for its big sugar factory and rice production, is a pretty little city on the Senegal River about an hour and a half north of StLouis. Most of our time there was spent hanging out at Jet's apartment grilling and trying to enhance ...

... my brothers, and an Obama/Biden campaign button that my dad wore around all day pinned to his boubou.
Meanwhile up in StLouis, Brendan has graciously allowed me to leave some clothes and my sleeping bag in his apartment and I have tried to ...

... good and on top of it. And I slept for most of the bus ride (it was 2.5 hours from Thies to Touba, and 3 from Touba to St. Louis), so I got a little caught up. And most of us are trying to fast for Ramadan (except for the whole no water thing), so ...

... she is actually from DC which is cool) got a grant to work with girls soccer teams in Senegal and is organizing a tournament in Dakar and StLouis as well as girls leadership activities. Although I'm more interested in just playing soccer as opposed ...